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Hmm. The more I think about it, the more my work situation resembles yours -- only I've already released the software to the users, and I'm expected to be a programmer. Most of the users treat my code (and all of the internal tools in general) as some sort of bounty or weregild that we (the programmers) are obliged to provide, and complain bitterly when things break. Never mind the fact that most -- maybe all -- of these tools came into being when a couple of coders got together and said, "So-and-so's wasting a whole week doing repetitive, dull work. I bet we can automate that." And I can pretty much guarantee you that, in a couple of years, my work will only be remembered in the irritation of maintenance programmers fixing bugs. "Oh, Matt wrote this. No wonder." Every once in a while, though, someone will thank me for a script, or a feature, or a document, that made their lives just a bit easier. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning. -- In reply to Re: Greediness, or Paranoia?
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